Sorry to break it to you, but it’s not always so dramatic.

She described it as a subtle wetness (which if you’ve been pregnant, you know happens).

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“I was sitting and laughed at a joke!

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I confirmed it when I went to pee, and a lot more came out, including themucus plug.

Then, I started filling pads up.

So who knows what caused it?”

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@Yo44

“I was watching TV and laughed at a joke.

It felt like I just peed myself, and it was, in fact, leaking water.

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Taking a leak

“Peeing, lol … it just kept coming.

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When I stood to walk away, I couldn’t make it stop.

you’ve got the option to stop urine midstream, but you cannot stop amniotic fluid.”

@5-peaseinapod

“Going pee.

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I thought, Wow, I sure am peeing a lot I thought I’d be done by now.

Then I realized that what was coming out was definitely not coming from my urethra.

When I sat down, it immediately broke.

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@mariaguidi

“I sat down on the toilet and had some fluid leak out.

I wasn’t 100% sure if it was my water breaking.

As soon as I stood up it hit the ground like a movie scene.

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It woke my husband up.”

@xhx

“Sleeping!

I randomly woke up at 1 a.m. and thought, why am I up?!

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Within a minute, I felt and heard a pop and a gush.”

@jccc2024

“I stood up from the couch.

I had been napping.”

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Hubby was at a 24-hour work shift.

Sorry, hubs!”

@pflowers87

“I was 38 weeks plus 6 days.

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As I was bouncing, I felt a gush of liquid.

I ran to the bathroom and the mucus plug came out.”

@sapphiresky88

In the bath

“Taking a bath!

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It broke while I was relaxing in the bath, and I didn’t feel anything!

Went to bed afterward and woke up in transition three hours later.

I got to the hospital and they asked, ‘When did your water break?’

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I said, ‘It didn’t!’

And they said, ‘It definitely did you have no bag of water.’

@rmw92

“I was already in labor, so I took a bath to help with the pain.

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@samd2112

In motion

“With my first, I was doing laundry.

I am40 weeksplus one day today, and I’m just waiting for it to happen again.”

@GabbyGonzalez2021

“It broke three weeks early while I was dancing in the kitchen with my toddler.

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I picked him up, put him on my belly to dance and felt the trickle.

@mountainmama232

While brushing

“I was brushing my teeth right after getting out of bed.

There was a very small leak.

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@Vetmama

“I was in active labor.

That sac was strong.

It broke during a crazy contraction when I was pushing.

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We’ll see what happens this time around.”

He goes, ‘Wait, what was that?’

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